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{{Infobox Settlement
|name          = Socorro, Santander
|native_name             =
|nickname               = 
|motto                  = 
|settlement_type        = [[Municipalities of Colombia|Municipality]] and town
|image_skyline          = Socorro Cathedral.jpg
|imagesize              = 
|image_caption          = The Socorro Cathedral, one of the Town's most known landmarks.
|image_flag             = Bandera de Socorro.svg
|image_seal             = Escudo de El Socorro.svg
|image_map              = Colombia - Santander - El Socorro.svg
|mapsize                = 250px
|map_caption            = Location of the municipality and town of Socorro, Santander in the Santander  Department of Colombia.
|pushpin_map            = 
|pushpin_mapsize        =300
|pushpin_map_caption        =Location in Colombia
|subdivision_type       = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
|subdivision_name       = {{flag|Colombia}}
|subdivision_type1       =[[Departments of Colombia|Department]]
|subdivision_name1       = [[Santander Department]]
|subdivision_type2      = 
|subdivision_name2      = 
|leader_title           = [[Mayor]]
|leader_name            = Humberto Chinchilla Mora [[Partido conservador colombiano]]
|established_title      = Foundation
|established_date       = March 16, 1681
|founder                = Don José de Archila and Don José Díaz Sarmiento
|area_magnitude         = 
|area_total_km2         = 122.10
|area_total_sq_mi       = 47.143
|area_land_km2          = 
|area_land_sq_mi        = 
|area_water_km2         = 
|area_water_sq_mi       = 
|area_water_percent     = 
|area_urban_km2         = 2,20
|area_urban_sq_mi       = 0.8574
|area_rural_km2         = 119,90
|area_rural_sq_mi       = 46.83
|population_as_of       = 2005 census
|population_note        = 
|population_total       = approx. 30,000
|population_density_km2 = 252
|population_density_sq_mi = 156
|population_metro       =
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|population_urban       = 
|latd=|latm=|lats= |latNS=N
|longd=|longm=|longs= |longEW=W
|timezone               = Colombia Standard Time
|utc_offset             = -5
|timezone_DST           = 
|utc_offset_DST         = 
|elevation_m            = 1300
|elevation_ft           = 4,265
|website                = http://www.socorro-santander.gov.co
|footnotes              = 
}}

'''Socorro''' is a town and municipality in the [[Santander Department]] in northeastern [[Colombia]]. It was founded in 1681 by Don José de Archila and Don José Díaz Sarmiento.The town was very influential in the history of Colombia. There began the revolution of the Communards of 1781(revolucion de los comuneros), against the oppression of Spanish rule. 

Socorro was the capital of Santander between 1862 and 1886.

==History==

The origin of the population was much more prosaic and simple. Broadly it can be argued that formed beside the road leading from Velez to Giron, the exact site where today is located. Don Jose de Archila and Don José Díaz Sarmiento, wealthy landowners chanchona Valley, donated the land to the Virgen de Nuestra Senora del Socorro, to set the village on 16 June 1683. Don Blas García Cabrera, influential and neighboring potentate representing many settlers, requested the erection of the parish to the metropolitan curia Santa Fe, with such good fortune, that the Archbishop Don Antonio Sanz Lozano Auto created it by November 27 Next, under the name of “Nuestra Senora del Socorro” and 2 December, the president, governor and captain general of New Granada, Francisco del Castillo de la Concha civilly approved the new administrative section. 

At the request of Captain Francisco Arias of Toledo and numerous neighbors, after four decades of constant progress of population, chairman Archbishop Don Francisco de Cossio and Otero granted the title of city in 1771, which changed the name to "City of Our Lady Cossio Socorro and Otero, whose officials took office on Aug. 15. However, as such grace, not filled the legal requirements, ie they were granted by the King of Spain, Felipe V objected and overruled on December 30, 1712. 

(contracted; show full)[[Category:Populated places in the Santander Department]]
[[Category:Municipalities of Santander]]

[[es:El Socorro (Santander)]]
[[fr:Socorro (Santander)]]
[[it:Socorro (Colombia)]]
[[nl:Socorro (Santander)]]
[[war:Socorro, Santander]]